Social Documentary Movies

An intimate look at the human faces of America's current opioid epidemic. Seen through the eyes of a mother and the lens of a small town.

American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i shows the survival of the hula as a renaissance continues to grow beyond the islands. With the cost of living in H...

A short retrospective documentary on the struggles of eating disorder.

A retired bricklayer wants his grandson, who lives hundreds of miles away, to stay with him. Will he convince the young man despite the lack of opport...

A short city symphony evocation of present day Mexico City five hundred years after the invasion of the Spanish and the fall of the Aztec city of Teno...

The Lourenço mine, in northern Amapá, continues to attract people driven by the dream of gold, despite the extreme wear of bodies and souls that the a...

The film follows a famous model and stylist Maja Atanasijević in her lonely, but intense struggle to bring back forgotten values of a city.

A journey into the interior of garbage, contemplated as a phenomenon of the human spirit, and not only as a product of human action. This essay-docume...

Lawyers, an ex-police investigator and a former judge denounce Japan's criminal justice system as defendants in a high-profile 2003 election-rigging c...

Presents the activities of a young woman on a holiday.

Jeffrey Catherine Jones is one of the most revered comic book and fantasy artists of all time and a complex character with an unusual life, an ideal s...

The film retraces the origins, history, habits and traditions of the Roma people but also tells the direct experience of some of the people who belong...

A short film in the Canada Vignette series. A cinematic portrait of a blind auto mechanic.

A midwife goes to medical school to learn modern techniques.

This documentary speaks to local activist groups in the music industry and culture scene to find out why people are driven to fight back and speak out...